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The trial & triumph of faithThe tryal & triumph of faith
The trial & triumph of faith: or, An exposition of the history of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan Delivered in sermons; in which are opened, the victory of faith; the condition of those that are tempted; the excellency of Jesus Christ and free-grace; and some special grounds and principles of libertinism and antinomian errors, discovered by Samuel Rutherfurd, professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews. Published by authority.The tryal & triumph of faith: or, An exposition of the history of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan Delivered in sermons; in which are opened, the victory of faith; the condition of those that are tempted; the excellency of Jesus Christ and free-grace; and some speciall grounds and principles of libertinisme and antinomian errors, discovered by Samuel Rutherfurd, professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews. Published by authority.
London: printed by John Field, 1652
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Ans. Its true, the Gospel speaketh no contradictions, and maketh not sin to be no sin,1 or Davids adultery not to be a violation of the seventh Commandment: indeed, it maketh Peters denial of Christ not to be Peters sin, in a legal and forinsecal way, but that Peter believing in Christ, who justifieth the ungodly, shall not be condemned for that, nor for any other sin, that, and all his other sins with that, are counted upon Christs score. But the denial of Christ, in another relation, is the sin of Peter only; to wit, according to the Physical inherency of it, in that it proceeded from Peters lust, and body of sin dwelling in him, and not any way from Christ Jesus, and in that its against Christs express commandment, who charged Peter to confess his Lord and Master.
Ans. Its true, the Gospel speaketh no contradictions, and maketh not sin to be no sin,1 or Davids adultery not to be a violation of the seventh Commandement: indeed, it maketh Peters deniall of Christ not to be Peters sin, in a legall and forinsecall way, but that Peter believing in Christ, who justifieth the ungodly, shal not be condemned for that, nor for any other sin, that, and all his other sins with that, are counted upon Christs score. But the deniall of Christ, in another relation, is the sin of Peter only; to wit, according to the Physicall inherencie of it, in that it proceeded from Peters lust, and body of sin dwelling in him, and not any way from Christ Jesus, and in that its against Christs expresse commandement, who charged Peter to confesse his Lord and Master.
- 1Christ is so made the sinner in suffering for sin, as there remaineth no sin in the, sinner once pardoned as Antinomians teach. Crispe, Ser. vol. 2. Ser. 3. p. 91 92 93.
But Antinomians, and by name D. Crisp, teach us, that not only the guilt of sin, but sin it self, really, and inherently, was laid upon